What Is Communion and Liberation?
Sofia Carozza on how the CL movement makes her Catholic.
2017
The Blessing of Marital Monotony
Richard Becker, husband, father of seven, nursing instructor, and religious educator, finds sanctification right in the middle of the monotony of marriage.
Jazz: A Foretaste of Eternal Life
Carolyn Pirtle, assistant director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, jams on how polyphonic music, especially jazz, images the communion of saints.
Whose Community? Which Benedict Option?
In our present cultural situation, it has become common for Christian thinkers to hold up St. Benedict as a paradigmatic example of how to navigate an increasingly secular society. This phenomenon can be traced back to the well-known con...
Handing Over to Satan
People, afflicted with an incomprehensible distress, Were throwing off their clothes on the piazzas so that nakedness might call For judgment. But in vain they were longing after horror, pity, and anger. —Czeslaw Milosz, "Oeconomia...
Belief in the Communion of Saints Isn't Optional
Leonard J. DeLorenzo, director of Notre Dame Vision, lays out why there is no doubt the communio sanctorum is central to a fully orthodox Catholic faith.
Christ's Story Runs Deeper: The Sanctified Imagination
In his collection of “diagnostic essays,” The Message in the Bottle, Walker Percy reflects on the particular idiosyncrasies of the modern milieu, offering a prognosis for the malaise that manifests itself in pervasive cu...
The Cure for a Throwaway Culture
Charles Camosy, Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics at Fordham, follows the lead of Pope Francis in recommending Christian cures for what ails society.
Black Bodies, Kneeling, and the Liturgy
Eric T. Styles, Rector of Carroll Hall at the University of Notre Dame, puts Colin Kaepernick's kneeling within a liturgical and Girardian perspective.
Human Dignity Was a Rarity Before Christianity
David Bentley Hart recaptures the oddness of Christianity's universalization of human dignity.
Ancient Israel's Law of Defending the Weak
Anthony Pagliarini of Notre Dame's theology department argues the Law requires of Israel an extension of what God himself has done for her.
Catholic Disagreements and the Catechism's 25th Anniversary
Brian Pedraza, Assistant Professor of Theology at Our Lady of the Lake College in Baton Rouge, LA, on the long roots of current Catholic debates.
Stewards Not Ravagers
If we consider the etymological roots of the word “ecology,” we can see in its Greek root the word oikos (meaning “household”). The word “ecology” itself thus already indicates to us a deep sense of ra...
Human Dignity Can't Be Separated from Ecological Awareness
Fr. Terry Ehrman, CSC, Director for Life Sciences Research and Outreach at the ND Center for Theology, on Christ, stained-glass, and salvation.
A God Passionately Interested in Human Beings
Cyril O'Regan explains why Benedict XVI's Deus Caritas Est is one of the greatest encyclicals ever written.
I Used to Be a Creationist
I have a confession to make: I used to be a creationist. This probably sounds absurd, especially coming from a student at a university which prides itself on its commitment to faith and reason—a university which was even home to on...
The Hospitality of Adoption
"I hope that you'll have one of your own one day." Anyone who has adopted a child has heard this statement more than once. As an adopting parent of two children, I've learned to grit my teeth and smile, offering this gentle retort, "Well...
MacIntyre on What's Sinking Catholic Education
Artur Rosman, Managing Editor of Church Life Journal, builds upon Alasdair MacIntyre's economic critique of Catholic higher education.
Welcoming the Child: Foundations of the Hospitable Imagination
Claire Fyrqvist argues that the meaning of hospitality inherent to pregnancy should color both our politics and our Catholic imagination more broadly.
Beauty Already Has Saved the World
St. Paul concludes his letter to the Philippians with an exhortation: Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence and...
The Pondering Heart: Notre Dame’s Special Consecration to Our Lady
The start of each academic year indicates a season of rejoicing in new beginnings. The commencement of this academic year, however, also invited the Notre Dame community to engage in a year-long process of remembering. On November 26 of ...
Letting the Imagination Out to Play
Last weekend, I was in Philadelphia for the Society for Catholic Liturgy. This “multidisciplinary association of Catholic scholars” seeks to promote the “scholarly study and practical renewal of the Church’s litur...
School as Personalist Community
Education is power. I’ve heard this many times, and I don’t disagree. However, our educational system is in crisis. Our diocesan schools are in crisis, and the solutions coming from the top don’t really seem to be helpi...
St. Francis of Assisi: Icon of the Hospitable Imagination
Jessica Keating argues, following St. Francis, that putting on Christ in baptism does not mean putting on only that part of Christ I agree with.
Liturgical Catechesis
Liturgical catechesis—the act of reorienting our lives in and by the liturgical act—is quite a hot topic in ministerial circles currently. Liturgical catechesis should allow the grace of God to work through the words, actions...
The Perfect Family Is an Idol
Anna Keating, author of The Catholic Catalogue, discusses why the American idea of family, the nuclear family, is way too small.
One Story at a Time
Different stories are here at Notre Dame. It’s time to find them.
Our Baptism in Ordinary Time
"Jesus answered, and said to him: Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:3). We, the baptized, have been born anew. This can only sound routine if we have thoroughly domesticated our...
Church Life is the Heart of the Catholic Imagination
Church life must once again become the heart of the Catholic imagination, but the onus of avoiding beauty’s revenge is not entirely upon the artists.
Don’t Panic About Nones Who Stop Believing
Sooner or later—probably sooner rather than later these days—children stop believing in Santa Claus. My younger brother was an exception to this rule, although to be fair there were a lot more cultural supports for Santa Clau...
